Eurovision Express caught the end of the FYR Macedonia final last night, and found the voting highly exciting. After passing the microphone along a row of jurors it emerged that the jury favourite was Kaliopi and Naum with Rum dum dum. As such it was awarded 12 points. But this was only half the story.
The televote was then announced which would make up the other 50% of the final mark. Kaliopi and Naum only came 5th in the phone vote, and were awarded 6 points, giving them a total of 18 points.
Performers Next Time, who had received 7 points from the jury received the top mark from the televote, 12 points, and as such got a total of 19 points, just edging out Kaliopi and Naum to win the Contest. But a closer look at the number of televotes Next Time and the runner-up in the televote, Slang, got, shows just how different it could have been.
Next Time got 4176 televotes (and therefore 12 points) and Slang got just 8 televotes fewer - 4168 televotes (and therefore 10 points). If 9 more people had picked up their phones and voted for Slang they would have got the televoting 12 points, and Next Time would have got 10 points, which would have given them a total of 17 points (7 from the jury and 10 from the public). Which all means that Kaliopi and Naum would have won....
What a difference 9 people could have made....
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